What did you do in the reloading room today?

[Jtarm]

I turned the fan on, clamped the 600 jr. down, and obtained the unobtainable- .410 shells! Happily the recipe fit in the old Super X paper hulls as well as the AAs.
Perhaps those dove getting gravel from my drive should beware…..304650

Pressures should be lower in paper hulls. The interior is smoother.

[openbook]

Broke out 50 new PPU brass, lubed and sized. Did some load research for a 40gr plain-based boolit in the 22 Hornet.

[15meter]

Actually last night, made 2 snap caps for a double rifle in 400-350 and loaded 8 test loads in 450-400 N.E.

Full house loads. The kind you wear a boxer's mouth guard when you shoot them. Kind that either cures or causes trips to the chiropractor.

The kind I'll load but let other people shoot, cause it's so much fun doing the countdown until their eyes uncross.

Don't know what's in store for tonight. May go the other way, haven't loaded any Hornet's in awhile.

[Mal Paso]

Starline delivered a thousand 223 cases yesterday. I made up a dummy round with a M193 bullet which cycled fine in 2 chambers and started priming. Lost 1 primer with 470 primed so far. Much lower loss rate than processed crimped brass. Stopped for tea and a snack and headed back out to the shop.

Got 600 primed and 400 loaded.

[openbook]

Cleaned about 550 cases, most my own but a few range pickups mixed in. Dried in a yard sale dehydrator donated by my wife.

After a three hour tumble with pins and Dawn, the whole lot came out dull brown and looking heavily tarnished. I'm new to the rotary tumbler and first I thought it could be because I let them sit. Tumbled again for half an hour. No change. Rinsed heavily and three more hours. No change. Rinsed again and added a heavy dose of Dawn and Cream of Tartar. No change. Finally I ran it again with a heavy shot of vinegar. The cases shined up again.

The reason for the tarnish? I found them when I pulled the cases out and tapped them to shake out pins. Ten Sig 9mm cases, steel, but with a brass coat on them. Those ten cases were enough to dull the whole lot. I'm glad I finally found the vinegar option.

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You might see a few dark, discolored cases in the pictures. Those got stuck in larger cases on the last tumble and didn't clean up as much as the others. I'll get 'em on the next go round.

[414gates]

I spent two hours looking for a number 18 shellplate for my pro 2000. I bought one on Amazon a couple months ago, and could not remember where I put it. I looked everywhere - took two hours - then I decided to check on Amazon when it was delivered, maybe that would help me remember. According to Amazon, it was never delivered, they have it as lost in transit.

The shellplate I thought I received was confused with a number 6 that I received from a different supplier around the same time.

I'm happy I didn't lose the shellplate, but not so much that I'm losing my mind.

[trixter]

Took the Factory crimp die out of the turret and moved the seater die to it's place. Installed RCBS bullet feed die now I will seat and crimp with the seater die (Old school). Speeding up process.

[WRideout]

Deprimed and washed some 45 ACP brass, on the way to being reloaded.

Wayne

[Ajax111]

Trimmed 800 223 cases, now for the final wash.

[trixter]

I reinstalled the RCBS in line bullet feeder to the turret on my Lee Classic Cast Turret press. I am determined to get it to work.

[Bmi48219]

Loaded 1,100 9mm 115 RN target loads. Lost one primer but found it :coffee:
Taking a break then box & label them.

[super6]

Loaded 200 rounds 38 special using Unique. First time using that powder! @ 4.8 grans, Looks promising. 158 gran XTP j words.

[Mandoair]

Keep us posted on how those loads perform please. Do you think the 10mm is an adequate bear defense round?
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Weighed few hundred different boolits that have been being clutter on the bench. Put some powder on a small batch of AM-40-165-RF they have a number of small grooves hoping they will do better with PC then the boolits I have tried so far.
To answer the above request of how my first test of the PC boolits in the picture went. I was not impressed. As for the AA-40-215-F all four loads were slower less accurate and more violent to shoot than the same loads with lube. 219gr boolit up to 11.4gr AA#9 lubed 1139 fps PC 1088fps and hurt to shoot. The other boolits were also less accurate. (MP-40-160-HP). The chrono battery died so inconclusive tests. Shot 4 5rd groups with different loads of all tested. I’m not really sure what I expected from PC. Are boolits with no lube grooves better I suspect so. More berring surface.

[taco650]

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Weighed few hundred different boolits that have been being clutter on the bench. Put some powder on a small batch of AM-40-165-RF they have a number of small grooves hoping they will do better with PC then the boolits I have tried so far.
To answer the above request of how my first test of the PC boolits in the picture went. I was not impressed. As for the AA-40-215-F all four loads were slower less accurate and more violent to shoot than the same loads with lube. 219gr boolit up to 11.4gr AA#9 lubed 1139 fps PC 1088fps and hurt to shoot. The other boolits were also less accurate. (MP-40-160-HP). The chrono battery died so inconclusive tests. Shot 4 5rd groups with different loads of all tested. I’m not really sure what I expected from PC. Are boolits with no lube grooves better I suspect so. More berring surface.

Thanks for the update!

[44Blam]

Resized about 500 230 grain 45s and then loaded up about 100. Gonna have a day or two of 45 ACP loading ahead of me...

So the next casting session needs to be 40 S&W. I did a trigger job the other day on my 4.25" S&W M&P 40 2 and it took the trigger from about 6.5lbs to just at 3lbs... And I polished just about anything metal in there so it is silky smooth... So -I'm gonna need more 40s just to keep trying that trigger out...

[Mandoair]

Sized (.402) some pc AM-40-160-WF (OD Green) and Loaded up 20 of those and 10 AA-40-150-H (red) hoping to be happier with these than the first ones I tried. 305066

[Texas by God]

I came across 200 prepped 5.56 brass and a bag of 55gr fmjbt just laying there minding their own business- so I joined them with some Shooters World Match and CCI #41s.
I also loaded some 50 gr brass jacketed hp ( from LR cases) for play and some Remington 55gr PSP for hunting.
The .223 sure is fun.

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[44Blam]

Loaded another 200 45 ACP.

[Bmi48219]

Loaded a couple hundred S&W 40 loads (5.6 unique under a 180 CPFN) for the SIL. Using up some pulled down components.
Then reorganized my ammo storage area.

[Mal Paso]

Sorted and culled flawed bullets from about 800 35-200s, 3/4 water dropped. Set up the Original Pro Melt and cast 300 more air cooled 35-200s. I ran Auto Tune on the PID, think I need to do it again but I had most of my attention on casting. Second session after bringing the old Pro Melt back, no annoying dripping. I'm going to make an old style valve for the PM2 at some point.

[robg]

loaded 20x 308 163gc boolits .

[44Blam]

Loaded the last of my 45s. I'm set with 45ACP for a little while.

Got the day off tomorrow and my new favorite gun is the S&W M&P2 40 (because of the new trigger job) so prepped to cast a mountain of 40 cal boolits (HTC402-188-WFN).

[Charlie Horse]

First I powder coated, then I loaded some DE wadcutters for my Rossi lever gun. Most grouped into about 2" at 50 yards, but I had one, three-shot clover leaf! I'm using Unique. Pressures were low so now I'm going to up the charge.

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[44Blam]

Not a mountain, but about 30 lbs of 40 cal boolits.
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These are the NOE HTC-402-188-WFN. These guys go about 1050 fps when loaded on top of a good AA#7 charge out of a 5" barrel...

[Mal Paso]

Rotometals had to send me some pure lead as I had none, Thanks! I cast a few pure lead bullets and slugged the bore of my "new" revolver. The groove was .430" so I lapped the .429" cylinder throats to .431" with a brass lap and diamond paste. The finish was much smoother than a reamer which was what I did last time, the reamer was lost in a fire so I got to make the decision again. More care was required so as to not overshoot but I am very happy with the Pin Gauge fit in all the holes. Cost was $160 for 3/32-1/2" Laps and Diamond, about the same as a reamer but able to do more things like adjusting dies.

Thanks to DougGuy for mentioning Acro Laps. I would have had him do the job but shipping scares me with a cylinder that is out of production. He was right about holes not being truly round, I could feel it turning the new lap by hand.

[uscra112]

Good for you, Mal. Lapping take a bit more skill, but it's much more precise. And if the next time you need a smaller or bigger hole, you already have the tooling.

[Mandoair]

Very interesting. Lapping the cylinders out. I’m going to look into that. Thanks
Tested some more PC boolits. Arsenal mold 40-165-WFN OD Green. The one with the 4 or 5 little wrinkles for lube. I have not been really impressed with these with lube but likening the 4 light loads I tried with AA #5. 7.0 7.4 7.8 8.2. 10mill. 5.25” Springfield xdm. 826 to 960 fps. Going to go on up to see how they behave.

[sukivel]

I uncovered my bench and the Lyman measure tube popped off and spilled 4350 everywhere.

After cleanup it was loading 20 rnds of Partitions for the 25-06.


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[Mal Paso]

I slugged the bore of my 350 Legend, .356", rifling looks good. Will try shooting without the muzzle brake. There was crud built up in the passages that may have opened up the groups.

[Mandoair]

Prepped about 850 10 mm cases with citric acid in preparation of sizing and decapping. 305246

[TNsailorman]

I am building target frames out of PVC pipe and connections. Cheap and very easy to do. james

[Texas by God]

I loaded 100 rounds of 6.8 Remington and looked in vain for a 3/8" dovetail blank with a d&t hole in it- I know it's somewhere in there.
I burned the old shot up pallet and placed a new one at the 40 yard berm.

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[44Blam]

PC'd all those 40s from last weekend. Mixed in about 75% signal blue with about 25% john deer green. Funny thing is that they aren't consistently one color. They are a nice range from blue to green.
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[kevin c]

I am building target frames out of PVC pipe and connections. Cheap and very easy to do. james
Let me guess: shooting for accuracy?

I’m into the action shooting sports, where time highly affects scoring. Shooting as fast as possible means acceptable hits can be a foot or more apart, so the target frames get shot through regularly. Wood frames can stand the abuse, at least for a few sessions. I’m thinking pvc might shatter and fail with just one errant shot?

ETA: And I’m away from home vacationing, so no action in my reloading room.

[lightman]

Not in the loading room but out in the garage taking advantage of the cooler Fall air. Since our recent move my lead stash has been sitting in the floor on one side of the garage. A few days ago I started moving the ingots from milk crates to ammo cans and stamping permanent letters on the older ones that were not stamped. I been doing a milk crate in the morning and another in the afternoon. I'm about half through and throughly tired of moving lead! :smile:

[44Blam]

Resized the 1200 or so 40 cal boolits...

[Mandoair]

Resized the 1200 or so 40 cal boolits...

Wow I just finished up sizing and flaring about 850 10mm and it took just over 2 days. But I am retired.

[uscra112]

I'm re-tired, too. I was tired yesterday, and I'm tired again today.

[Texas by God]

I guess the German in me made me load 8x57mm yesterday and start sizing 9mm today. The Lee 175gr over 9grs of Unique is more accurate than I am with those darned barleycorn sights....
My better half emptied her Shield 9 erasing a serpent off the driveway- so I need to load some 115gr Gold Dots for carry and some 38-105swc for practice.

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[SoonerEd]

Probably sacrilege on this forum, but 40 rounds of Lazzeroni 721 Firebird with 140 grain Berger Moly coated hunting VLD bullets. They run over 3,400 fps. Doesn't take long to go through a pound of powder at 99.0 grains per cartridge.

[TNsailorman]

kevin, the way I build my target frames they are about a 20 second repair if one gets shot. They slip fit. The only parts glued are the bases. I no longer shoot combat matches (too old now at 80) but I know what you mean by frames getting shot up. There was a nationally known policeman out of Memphis(I think) back many, many years ago that had a saying that I will always remember. He said "You can't miss fast enough to win"). I found that to be true. james

[Mal Paso]

I am building target frames out of PVC pipe and connections. Cheap and very easy to do. james

PVC pipe is 3X the price it was before biden. Anyone have a Wayback machine I could borrow, bring you some primers.

[414gates]

Loaded up .44 Special with the balance of 245 grainers I had, about 130.

On my Classic Cast, with Ram Prime, case activated Lee autodisk, and a set of Lyman All-American dies in a black cardboard box.

It was more relaxing doing it that way for a change, instead of on the progressive.

[brokeasajoke]

Annealed some K hornet brass. Been getting several split necks so I annealed the whole lot of them.

[44Blam]

Identified the problem 40 S&W cases and also reloaded about 200 40s - only 1000 more to go in this batch...

[Mal Paso]

I cleaned the new to me Colt 6" 44Mag today and there were only a couple small flakes of lead in the barrel, I think it is starting to season. There are a couple micro deposits of lead from the previous owner that a brush isn't getting so I ordered some chore boy, a Lewis would be overkill. It had .429" throats over a .430 groove and slight roughness in the bore that was soldered on lead, still a couple specks left. Last week I lapped the throats to just over .431" and this is the second time to the range.

Yesterday I shot 126 rounds, 20g of 2400 under a 256g #503 for about 1350 fps and it was nice. My old 6" was a half lug 629 and the extra weight of the full lug Anaconda eliminates most of the muzzle flip, like switching from a pickup to a cadillac. For me now it's a matter of building my muscle tone back so I can hold the gun steady. Going to try to get some 1.5 inch groups again before OMS set in.

Cost of 126 44 Mag rounds $18.90 with pre jovid components.

[44Blam]

I cleaned the new to me Colt 6" 44Mag today and there were only a couple small flakes of lead in the barrel, I think it is starting to season. There are a couple micro deposits of lead from the previous owner that a brush isn't getting so I ordered some chore boy, a Lewis would be overkill. It had .429" throats over a .430 groove and slight roughness in the bore that was soldered on lead, still a couple specks left. Last week I lapped the throats to just over .431" and this is the second time to the range.

Yesterday I shot 126 rounds, 20g of 2400 under a 256g #503 for about 1350 fps and it was nice. My old 6" was a half lug 629 and the extra weight of the full lug Anaconda eliminates most of the muzzle flip, like switching from a pickup to a cadillac. For me now it's a matter of building my muscle tone back so I can hold the gun steady. Going to try to get some 1.5 inch groups again before OMS set in.

Cost of 126 44 Mag rounds $18.90 with pre jovid components.

126 rounds of solid 44 mag is a pretty big day at the range. My full tilt 44 mag rounds are a 240 @ 1450 - 100 rounds wears out my hands.

[Mal Paso]

126 rounds of solid 44 mag is a pretty big day at the range. My full tilt 44 mag rounds are a 240 @ 1450 - 100 rounds wears out my hands.

It would have been a chore with either of my 4 inch woods carry guns. I have a 6" 629 that was my regular practice gun but the topstrap is so badly gas cut, I don't shoot it. California foiled my attempt to replace it, ran my approval beyond 30 days. When I did a full court press all I could find was a vintage Anaconda. The throats were tight over a .430 bore but it's electrically machined and looks like a mirror. Trigger SA, DA Perfect! I need a new Cylinder Bolt Spring as it will skip a chamber occasionally when it gets dirty.

While I was checking out at the shooting range, I got a nice complement. The fellow who was shooting next to me said "You didn't jerk once, not even dry fire" (cylinder bolt skip) No flinch but I Do need to get that rock solid hold back, it goes quick now that I am older.

[Harter66]

Last couple of weeks I've run 800 45 ACP and 600 45 AR . Not a huge accomplishment since they are only sized , flared , tumbled and on hold for priming.

I did get Dad's old Pacific marked Hornady red press out , cleaned up , and working.
I remembered his 45 ACP/AR dies being carbide but I guess that must have been the other 3-4 sets . These are steel so I had to lube cases . Well no I didn't , I could have gotten out the other set of Lyman All American (1972) or the RCBS carbide dies but these were Dad's tools so I didn't. I don't guess the dies have been out of their boxes in probably 30 years . I cleaned them up some.

I must have used them at some point , the size die has an RCBS decapping stem in it that is flare capable . I need to change that to one of the old 38/357 stems or just pull it all together and stick it in the expander die . The expander is a steel tipped aluminum stem ...... I thought Lee was the only one that did that .....
The seater was gross but was a flat point so there's that going for it . All revolvers and a garbage disposal PCC to feed so the FP/SWC stem is actually a good thing since I don't have any RN type moulds in 45.

There's a little more cleaning to do on the old press before it's completely right again .

[Mandoair]

Been cleaning brass and noticed a huge difference between batches. Both were wet tumbled with h2o citric acid and ss media the one on the bottom had a dribble of Shaklee Basic-H added‼️ (a organic biodegradable, surfactant, household cleaner.). 305449

[Mal Paso]

I'm running a few squirts of Dawn in RO water, no citric acid. Mom was a Shaklee distributor but it's been a while. Wonder if I still have some?

I deprimed and sized about 400 223 and 350L and have them tumbling now. 250+ 44 Mag sized and ready to tumble.

[hc18flyer]

I loaded 2 more 'ladder loads' for our Browning 45-70. Trying to match the sights we have, if possible. Using the Lee 340 grain pb buĺlet. Trying Unique and 3031 powders now.

[TXCOONDOG]

Casted 30cal for 30-30

[hlvabeach]

Sold my Ruger Super Blackhawk Hunter in Colt 45 so spent a couple days breaking down a bunch of bullets I reloaded with my wack a mole.

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[405grain]

I loaded up 200 rounds of 7x57 Mauser using the rcbs 7mm-145-Sil bullet and 22.0 grains of shooters world buffalo. I haven't shot my 7x57 VZ-24 in years so it's time to take it to the range.

[Mandoair]

Started Measuring and sorting by .001” some 10 mm brass I’ve been using for some time and range brass.

[Texas by God]

Yesterday I loaded my daughter some .243s with H414 and 95gr Nosler purple tips- hopefully she'll find time for a deer hunt with Dad. I also sized and primed some 30-30 for a Mauser small game load( Lee TL 314 90grswc)
Today I drove to Wisconsin straight through- so I'll finish them later!

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[44Blam]

Loaded up another 200 40s. Making my way through the 1200 or so I cast a little while back.

[35 Rem]

Over the last two evenings I've sized and cleaned 1,500 45ACP cases. Now have to sort SP from LP before priming - that is going to be fun. May sort as I prime.

Also loaded up 10 test rounds of a new 8mm Mauser load for deer season.

[Ajax111]

I wet tumbled 300 30/06 brass. Trying to get caught up on some brass I have stored.

[Mandoair]

Finished prepping 500 10 mill brass and started priming. Sorted through lots of small batches of different boolits of different weights to start loading for a training shoot week from Friday. PC d 150 MP 165 HPs that I sized before powder. Gained .001 hoping for better accuracy.
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[Mal Paso]

Sorted 500 Air Cooled 35-200s. Flared and primed almost 400 pieces of brass. Headed back out to load some 350 Legend.

[openbook]

Loaded some Lee 452-230-TC in 45 Auto. And did some follow-on reading to Ed Harris' article in the most recent Fouling Shot, where he claims that Reloder 7 with hot, water-dropped 50-50 WWs and Lino can cycle a carbine-length AR and be really accurate, too.

[Mandoair]

Got started loading 10mm got 115 done and found 5 lbs of pure tin for $75. 305848

[sqlbullet]

Well, it was Sunday, but I cast:

500 NOE 452-197 SWC

500 NOE 403-200 WF

500 NOE 358-128 SWC

[Mal Paso]

The Chore Boy arrived so I got the last bit of lead in the bore of the Colt left by the previous owner. Up until a few weeks ago it had tight throats.

The Wheeler Upper Rail Vise Block arrived too. Whoever assembled my 350L Upper overtightened the barrel nut to line up the handguard holes and still didn't get there. I tried to remove it but the force would have ripped the lugs off. I used a 6 inch Vise, clamped the upper rail in the Wheeler Block and used a 25" breaker bar on the nut wrench and it still took a couple tries. I had a shim kit and got it to line up at 60 ftlbs, 80 is max. Whoever put mine together was over 200 ftlbs and the threads were Greased!

[Laguna Freak]

Over the last few months I managed to acquire powder, primers, and 500 bore + .001” sized cast boolits. So, this week I’ve been doing load development for my 10yr old Walther PPQ .40 S&W. I started with 6.2 gr Silhouette lit by CCI 550 pushing 160 gr LHP. I ended up at 7 gr Silhouette as the best group performance last night shooting 4 of 5 rounds into ~ 1.5” at 21 feet. So, this evening I loaded up 100 rounds.


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[Mandoair]

The Chore Boy arrived so I got the last bit of lead in the bore of the Colt left by the previous owner. Up until a few weeks ago it had tight throats.

The Wheeler Upper Rail Vise Block arrived too. Whoever assembled my 350L Upper overtightened the barrel nut to line up the handguard holes and still didn't get there. I tried to remove it but the force would have ripped the lugs off. I used a 6 inch Vise, clamped the upper rail in the Wheeler Block and used a 25" breaker bar on the nut wrench and it still took a couple tries. I had a shim kit and got it to line up at 60 ftlbs, 80 is max. Whoever put mine together was over 200 ftlbs and the threads were Greased!
We’ll.

That’s what I learned in the oil field. Just get a longer cheater ‼️
How bout the new S&W 350 L 7 rd revolver ❓

I’ve gotten almost 300 rds loaded these last few days for the 10mm some PC and some Lube. All AA#5 7.9 gr. MP-40-160-HP. @ 158gr. For two hour Skill Builder shoot tomorrow. And need that many more for low light tactical class early November.

[B1GB1RD]

loaded 1500 38's cleaned about 10k pieces of misc brass, cast 15 5# ingots for later on

[Mal Paso]

How bout the new S&W 350 L 7 rd revolver ❓


Wow! Thanks for the heads up! It looks like their selling for $650 over List right now. Besides I already spent too much on one revolver this year!

[Texas by God]

Attacked rust on a Winchester m25 with a wire brush and cordless drill until the battery ran out. Re-coated it with Kroil to sit for a week or so.
We're aiming for a functional wall hanger is all.

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[uscra112]

Remember the Coke treatment!

[robg]

prepped some 308 and 45-70 brass.

[Rapier]

Took the daughter out on my range to do an orientation with the 637 Smith I did up for her, action job, trigger job, Packmeyer grips, Etc. She got in 50 rounds of 3.2 grains of 231 under 148 grain soft cast HB wad cutters, a few 158 grain cast hard cast SWCs with 3.5 grains of 231 and a few rounds of 125 JHPs.
Daughter, a 6 year veteran of the Iraq war, works for a college administration and is going to take the qualification course for the Guardian program at the college. The Guardian program is the armed security personnel in the schools in FL.

[carelesslove]

carelesslove, here!

Finally, I got around to tumbling, inspecting, sizing, depriming, and cleaning the primer pockets of 450 rounds of old, W-W nickeled .357 Magnum brass. Then, I will trim it to length and get it ready for reloading.

After all this, I plan to load it and stock for inventory - then shoot all of it - hoping I live long enough for it to need trimming again.

This brass is still probably better than I can buy today. It sure does shine up well!

Thanks, carelesslove

[Mal Paso]

Took the daughter out on my range to do an orientation with the 637 Smith I did up for her, action job, trigger job, Packmeyer grips, Etc. She got in 50 rounds of 3.2 grains of 231 under 148 grain soft cast HB wad cutters, a few 158 grain cast hard cast SWCs with 3.5 grains of 231 and a few rounds of 125 JHPs.
Daughter, a 6 year veteran of the Iraq war, works for a college administration and is going to take the qualification course for the Guardian program at the college. The Guardian program is the armed security personnel in the schools in FL.

Excellent! Thanks to both of you for trying to make a difference!

[Mal Paso]

Friday I unloaded 144 44Mag rounds with the new to me Colt. Saturday I deprimed the brass and cleaned the gun. There were a few flakes of lead in the bore that came out with the first patch wet with Ed's Red, nothing on the second patch and the bore was like a mirror after a dry patch. I'm hoping it will season like my old 629. One problem, when the gun gets dirty the cylinder will skip forward a chamber under recoil. I pulled the side plate and checked the bolt spring which looks to be more rare than hen's teeth. I need to check the bolt penetration of the cylinder slot and see if Jack First is still around for a spring. My first Anaconda was unfinished when I got it too.

I've been tumbling the brass while I wrote. About 500 pieces in a Rebel 17 with stainless pins. Back to work!

[hc18flyer]

Cast and powder coated 175- Lee 340 grain .45-70 and 200 .45 ACP bullets. It was my first try, very happy with my experience. Found a Oster convection oven at Goodwill for $4.00 and a screen pan for an air fryer, that fit my oven perfectly. Ordered powder from Smoke and followed his instructions. I used an oven thermometer and baked for 20 minutes at 400 degrees. I am hoping I can load them without sizing, we will see? Of course the .45 ACP are 'OD green, for my brothers GI 1911. hc18flyer

[rmark]

Boiled the old lube out of the lube sizer, going to refill with 50/50 from White Label.

[agcannon]

loaded a couple hundred 44 mags. 429421, powder coated smokes jd green, sized at .432". 18 grains 2400. used to use 9 grains unique, running low, still have over 12lb's 2400. For SBH, Vaquero birdshead and win. 94ae. saving the unique for my trapdoor

[Mandoair]

Went on Friday and unloaded hundred rounds in a skill builder class with eight other folks. I had loaded up a bunch of MP-40–160 – HP half and half lube and powder coated they all shot great they were over AA #5 7.9 gr. power factor of about 160 really nice for shooting paper fast with a 10 mill. Temperature was a blazing 20° or so as night fell. Soon we will be shooting with gloves on.

[SoonerEd]

Tried out my NOS Lyman 457-124 I picked up a couple of months ago. Its throwing around 390 with RL +2% Sn at .359. So, they will be lubed and shot as cast in a Pedersoli Rolling Block that was slugged at .458. The range lead tests at 8 BHN.
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[Mandoair]

306129Been prepping some 10mm brass and sizing some powder coated lead in between plowing snow most of the day.

[SoonerEd]

306129Been prepping some 10mm brass and sizing some powder coated lead in between plowing snow most of the day.

It was 60 degrees here today in Jackson, MS...just say'n!

[uscra112]

And y'all were wearing your ski parkas.......

[Gatorhunter1313]

I got my accurate mold back from hollow point molds. I love this one. It’s a .358 185gr mold with 2 of the cavities hollow pointed


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[Randy Nichols]

I did manage to make a casting of my 45-110 chamber.

[Mal Paso]

I did manage to make a casting of my 45-110 chamber.

Great! Welcome to the Forum!

I sized 200, 350 Legend brass and did a powder inventory.

[Harter66]

I have managed to get a full day in the cave in the last month.

As the cave doubles as a mud room and throughfare to the laundry room it had become also a bit of a catch all as well ...... Fortunately it's mostly related so it's not as bad as it sounds at first glance .

It started off with consolidation of shot shells ..... In case anyone wants to know 4 cases will fit in a wide 20mm ammo can . 2 more cans and and a cooler from the move 4 yr ago were reduced to 1 20mm can full of boxes and trays , several bags of brass , 1 of which explains everything I needed to know about why a rifle that just wouldn't shoot 40 yr ago wouldn't shoot , and a small treasure trove of 1941-1963 or so 06' brass . Also 3 9mm/38/357 box trays full of paper patched 30 cal bullets .

A few days ago I managed to sneak in over 3 days about 4 hours and cast 500 H&G #130s in the $35 8 cavity . I actually poured probably closer to 800 . The first go was a train wreck with probably a 50% reject rate. The second was better at probably only about 25% and it really started to roll about the time I ran out of ladle depth in the pot . I should mention here that I haven't cast anything in volume or in more than a 2 cavity mould in about 5 years. Skipping over all of the quite frankly amateur stupid level flaws in my technique the 3rd run had only about 20 rejects and ran a full pot , about 35 pours in this behemoth mould . 1600 gr of bullets and nearly that in sprue every pass .
Sized and counted via the new to me transition Lyman 45 full of something that looks and smells like old school bearing grease but isn't as gooey and should be fine in a 5.5" 1917 .

It's been a couple of months ago that I prepped a total of nearly 1700 45 ACP SP and Auto Rim brass for this pending marathon of case stuffing .

[B1GB1RD]

Cleaned the brass I shot at the match yesterday, reloaded it all and now im ready for Tueasdays match.

[Mal Paso]

Loaded a ladder of 350 Legend rounds. 35-200 bullet in 2 versions with A1680 for 80 rounds.

[Gatorhunter1313]

I powder coated some of my new .358 hollow point cast bullets

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[Walks]

Sized 200 .44Mag cases.

[openbook]

Cast 30x .457 round balls and 50x Lee 457-405 from SOWW. Cast around 90x MP 227-640 Hornets from COWW, plain base and air cooled. Pan lubed the 22 cal boolits with Ben's Red.

Made a batch of 5 parts beeswax 4 parts olive oil black powder lube (Larry Gibson credit), pan lubed the 457-405s.

Mounted a new-to-me Lyman Universal case trimmer with a new compliment of pilots onto a 2x4 and clamped it to the bench.

[Mandoair]

Refilled lubasizer finished lubing all of the cast boolits i had around primed about 300 lp 10 mm brass and got 200 loaded up with mp-40-160-hp over 8 gr AA #5. Light loads but sweet for paper.

[MOA]

Finally got my handles so I could use the lee 00 buckshot mold so fired up the big pot an made 1-1/2 pounds of buck that I'll load later this week. Also grabbed another mold bought years ago at a show in west Mobile Alabama that I lived in walking distance off for a 7.62x39 it's a tumble profile with gas check. Small single cavity but not bad boolits but going to take time to get the numbers. Going to find a good stool to sit on if I'm going to get 40 pounds of buck made, and get the shed ready for inside casting, the cold winds are starting to blow out of the North here on the Mesa and if snow arrives line last week it'll be out of the south. Time to get indoors for sure.




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[Mandoair]

Got another 230 of the 10mm done in between catching some sun before another week of snow starts tonight.

[indian joe]

made hard work out of loading 200 44/40's
I almost exclusively shoot blackpowder but a mate gave me some brass (he's a fussy dude, likes allasame headstamp - starline is the latest fad) so he culled out a couple hundred R.P , and a few winchester, I did him a favour - here take this bag of stuff home. ok done !! thank you.
So I had about 400 of the LEE 200grain boolits for the 44/40 - really like the look of that one, lube grooves a little skimpy for blackpowder but in the gun concerned its an accurate shooter. So loaded a half dozen slow and careful to check things - large pistol primer + 7 grains of AP70 powder - all good .
So when I went to assemble these in my proper seating die all sorts of havoc ensued. All that seemed to want to happen was them little boolits slippin down in the case - had plenty of neck tension but soon as I got them seated to the crimp groove fffffpt down in the case with just a little tip stickin out - honest this deal was like tryin ta grab the pointy end of a wet bar of soap!! ....I ended up seating them to depth in the open with a stub die in a little simplex press, then clean the leftover lube off with a rag and WD40, then run em through the proper crimp die, the crimp groove on this boolit is skinny so I get a % of em with a little bulge at the crimp , so they all go through a homemade taper swage die I made for that problem (tight chamber and oversize boolits dont help) - then more fun, test every round for fit in the cylinder - maybe one in ten needs another touch with the swage die to fit free.
So with my normal Blackpowder load to sit these guys on this would have never happened - only messing round with smokeless was the problem
A good thing it was a miserable wet day out ! I spent most of it foolin round with these and listening to cowboy music.

[uscra112]

Generations ago Ideal made a tool for pressing little dimples into the case at the correct position to prevent that "bullet-slipping".

[michael.birdsley]

Went to the conservation range that I’m a member of and jackpot. .450 on the right 7mm mag in the back and a pile of 30-06 up front. I don’t have a 7mm mag but, have the other 2 calipers
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[taco650]

Went to the conservation range that I’m a member of and jackpot. .450 on the right 7mm mag in the back and a pile of 30-06 up front. I don’t have a 7mm mag but, have the other 2 calipers
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That is an awesome find!

[indian joe]

Generations ago Ideal made a tool for pressing little dimples into the case at the correct position to prevent that "bullet-slipping".

Easy to see why ! I woulda stopped and ordered one half way through my process - might be my last foray with smokeless powder.

[uscra112]

Some .38 Special cases have a cannelure. This was to speed the mfg. process for smokeless powder. Rather than precisely sizing the case and pressing the bullet in, the case was left a bit oversize, so the bullet could just be dropped in, after which the round was crimped.
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Discontinued long ago, they're a collectors' item today.

[Mal Paso]

Reloaded 350 Legend. Replacing the rounds in a A1680 ladder of loads I shot to see how the accuracy was when the chronograph batteries died. Accuracy was Good! Processed the brass from Monday. Was going to the range today but worked instead.

[B1GB1RD]

2000 rounds of 10mm with a 180gr FP bullet, great day on the bench!

[Mandoair]

2000 rounds of 10mm with a 180gr FP bullet, great day on the bench!
Wow that’s some production. I’ve been putting in a few hours here and there for a week or more even after preparing all the brass first and am feeling good to have about 700 10 mm packaged up. 150 yesterday. Did get my new sizing die from buffalo arms yesterday .403 so had to size lube for awhile. They do do good work ‼️

[Mandoair]

Well the .403 die is a bust at least for my 219gr. AA-40-215-F. They don’t chamber. Some of the shorter boolits do better they do chamber and shoot. More research is called for. So far no real accuracy advantages realized with .403.

[Mal Paso]

Well the .403 die is a bust at least for my 219gr. AA-40-215-F. They don’t chamber. Some of the shorter boolits do better they do chamber and shoot. More research is called for. So far no real accuracy advantages realized with .403.

You never know until you try. I went through 3 44Mag dies before I was happy.

[Harter66]

Well I was going to add some drool bait ......
Instead;
Virgin 1971 7mm Mauser brass for a virgin 275 Rigby barreled 110LH. RCBS 7mm-168 .

I loaded 5 ea 9, 10 ,10.5 gr Unique, 36 gr IMR 4831 same vintage as the brass .
8 in formed FC match 59 6.5 Unique and the NOE 287-150 Hunter .

When this rifle was an 06' it was insanely touchy about case volume. These being one lot I just weighed them . 169.0-170.8 , 40 were 169.2-169.8 and that made me very happy.

I don't know or care really about the FC59 Match it's just there to get the scope and barrel pointed at the same general area .

[Mal Paso]

I sized and deprimed the 100 or so 350Legend cases from the Accurate 1680 test. I had the 35-200g boolit up to 2118 fps, no flattened primers, lose primers or expansion of the unsupported section of the case. I bought some "once fired" Winchester that was loaded so hot some of them had belts after sizing. I checked all the cases today, not a hint of a bulge.

I also fixed my front rest. I had the muzzle brake too close to the bag and the backblast burned through the canvas and the stuffing came out. I woulda kept the flash hider but for california laws.

[44Blam]

Made a 1:49 UnUn for a 1/2 wave end fed antenna that I'm gonna string up in the trees...

[trails4u]

Loaded up some 11.15x58R Werndl cartridges for upcoming deer hunting trip.... New rules this year, BPCR single-shots only!! :) I'm excited about it.... Will be taking the Werndl, the Peabody in 43 Spanish, the Burnside and the 45-70 Trapdoor I purchased from the owner of the farm we're hunting.... Choices, choices.... :)

[Mandoair]

About finished up decaping flaring and tumbling 2000 9mm.

[MaLar]

I cast about a 1000 Lee 358125's. One of my favorite boolits used in 357 and 9mm.
I bought a second mold so I can use two at a time. The boolits just poured.

[taco650]

Loaded up some 11.15x58R Werndl cartridges for upcoming deer hunting trip.... New rules this year, BPCR single-shots only!! :) I'm excited about it.... Will be taking the Werndl, the Peabody in 43 Spanish, the Burnside and the 45-70 Trapdoor I purchased from the owner of the farm we're hunting.... Choices, choices.... :)

Hope your successful with one of those classic rifles. Please post a thread in the hunting section here if you do!

[Texas by God]

I’ve found a squirrel load that will feed in my Mauser 30-30. The Lee 314TL 90gr SWC sized to .309”, tumble lubed. Seated to the 3rd band below the crimp groove- and crimped lightly. CCI Large Pistol primer and one .3cc Lee scoop( 3.5 gr) of AA#2.
The same load works in my Tikka T3 30-06 as well.
Very good 25yard accuracy from both rifles.

[Mal Paso]

Flared and primed 300+ 350 Legend. Got 100 loaded with A1680, taking a break and I'll load some more.

[indian joe]

just loaded a few 45/70 - duplex blackpowder for a 1886 - 6 grains 4227 - 58 grains FFFg - 405 grain lead, slow and steady, shot a black cat that I been after for a couple weeks, he wandered through the yard and I saw him through the window while I was wiping the grease off the loaded rounds, gave me time to get Pa's little 101 skeet gun outa the safe and a couple number twos - nailed him at the back gate - realised after that I grabbed a couple of vintage ICIL Special shells, old paper cartridge loads - be 60 years old I reckon - one did the job - that sucker aint eatin anymore of my little birds.

[Ring3]

Finished rendering COWW, Pewter misc, and some misc scrap. Two days and two evenings, finally done. Made a good little pile.

[Texas by God]

I loaded some Lee C278135 pc'd and sized .278" over new to me AA2015 powder with Federal SR Match primers. In the 6.8 x43mm, AKA 6.8 SPC Remington.
I'm also working up a load in the 30-30 Oviedo using 150 gr CoreLokt bullets with Norma 203b powder. These Norma 30-30 cases were prepped by others (Turned necks and opening up the flash hole.) I'm just getting around to trying them out.

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[Mandoair]

Been loading up hundreds of 9mm with fmj’s I ve had around since I went full time on 10mm. Shot a bunch of the 9s tonight. They all went bang.

My life is so simple.

[243winxb]

Annealed some 44 magnum brass using candle & my sponge method. The very old, fired many times R-P Remington brass has started splitting in the body. Most splits are at mouth from many crimps.

More of a test then anything else. Heat for 30 seconds in flame may have only stress relieved the brass?

The wet sponge keeps the case head from over heating. Very dirty. Lots of black carbon black, but cleans up ok.

Test firing next week, weather permitting. 250 gr lswc & 10. 2 grs Unique. WLP.

[uscra112]

Can a candle burn hot enough to anneal brass?

[243winxb]

Can a candle burn hot enough to anneal brass?

Temperature + time. Google 2500F. I have done 223 & 6.5 Creedmore. Seems to work when remaining brass has stops splitting at necks. https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/hornady-factory-ammo-brass-defect-4th-loading.909184/

The 44 mag may not anneal, as the wet sponge acts as a heat sink. At 400F brass is stress relieved.

When the water in the sponge starts to sizzle/boil, brass is done .

[oley55]

for what it's worth I have been salt bath annealing my 357/44 mag brass. I wallowed out a couple old n abused Lee molds to serve as heat sinks. Seems to work in that regards but have not cycled them enough to determine if I am mitigating the split mouths or not. This is brass I've been using since the mid-80s (Federal and R-P).

[uscra112]

Now THAT is clever. What do you melt the salt in?

[super6]

for what it's worth I have been salt bath annealing my 357/44 mag brass. I wallowed out a couple old n abused Lee molds to serve as heat sinks. Seems to work in that regards but have not cycled them enough to determine if I am mitigating the split mouths or not. This is brass I've been using since the mid-80s (Federal and R-P).

That is clever! I knew was a better use for the LEE molds! LOL

[TribunusSanGeorgii]

Working through tumbling sp .45 brass.

[Rapier]

Decided to build a PSA Dagger, a modified clone of the Glock 19 gen 3. So did a few advances on the gen 3, trigger, sights, etc. Need to run a throating reamer in the SAMMI chamber to taper the lands a bit.
Loaded some 115 ASP J bullet rounds with Unique for initial tests and shoots 1 1/2" not to bad for a compact but not real good either. just so,so. Now loading some 120 RN grain cast with AA #7, see how they do, do not expect to much with the square end lands. If I had a NATO reamer I would run it in.

[oley55]

Now THAT is clever. What do you melt the salt in?

Thanks. I left the cavities small enough for the aluminum to clamp around the brass fairly tight. In the pic they are relaxed and do not show them tight against the brass.

I use a Lee 4 pound pot cranked to the highest setting with a home built PID temp controller. During my last session I was having a bit of difficulty staying at my targeted 925F, so I have pulled the thermostat out of the circuit. Haven't tried it since though. I just liked the idea of having the thermostat in the circuit as a failsafe should the PID decide to go wonky on me. There are a lot of warnings about overheated salts becoming aggressive oxidizers, which I believe is a bad thing!??

I bought the kit from Ballistic recreations several (5?) years ago.

[uscra112]

Of course molten lead has been used for annealing brass and tempering steel for 100 years or more.

[oley55]

Of course molten lead has been used for annealing brass and tempering steel for 100 years or more.

I have always wondered how they avoided the lead tinning to the brass.

[uscra112]

In the absence of a flux to break down the oxide layer, lead won't adhere. Any more than it does to a brass mould.

[Mandoair]

In the absence of a flux to break down the oxide layer, lead won't adhere. Any more than it does to a brass mould.

What causes flux? I have lead adhering to my brass mold. I used a breath of two cycle oil on the face’s.

[uscra112]

A flux is any material (usually liquid) which will bond strongly with the oxygen in the oxide layer on the metal, removing it so as to present a chemically clean brass surface.

Fluxing your lead alloy - same thing. The flux bonds with oxygen strongly enough to cause the oxides in the dross to yield up their metal and let it return to the melt.

If you tinned a mould, my first thought would be that some of whatever you were fluxing your lead with wasn't consumed, and got carried unto the mould. Or possibly some spattered into the mould, if it was close to the pot while you were fluxing your lead.

Fluxes are almost always acids of one kind or another. I'd be amazed if any sort of 2-stroke oil would be acidic.

There's one well known flux which is a gas - hydrogen. I once worked where we brazed GE jet engine parts in a big retort that was flooded with hydrogen, and heated to 1800 degrees. The hydrogen stripped any oxygen off, but left no residue to be cleaned. Managing those retorts was.....interesting. If any air got in before they were fully purged with argon after the heat was done....boom!

[Mandoair]

A flux is any material (usually liquid) which will bond strongly with the oxygen in the oxide layer on the metal, removing it so as to present a chemically clean brass surface.

Fluxing your lead alloy - same thing. The flux bonds with oxygen strongly enough to cause the oxides in the dross to yield up their metal and let it return to the melt.

If you tinned a mould, my first thought would be that some of whatever you were fluxing your lead with wasn't consumed, and got carried unto the mould. Or possibly some spattered into the mould, if it was close to the pot while you were fluxing your lead.

Fluxes are almost always acids of one kind or another. I'd be amazed if any sort of 2-stroke oil would be acidic.

There's one well known flux which is a gas - hydrogen. I once worked where we brazed GE jet engine parts in a big retort that was flooded with hydrogen, and heated to 1800 degrees. The hydrogen stripped any oxygen off, but left no residue to be cleaned. Managing those retorts was.....interesting. If any air got in before they were fully purged with argon after the heat was done....boom!

That is all very interesting thanks. I did not tin The mold but for a few specs. And yes the retorts do sound like fun.

[fastdadio]

Annealed some 44 magnum brass using candle & my sponge method. The very old, fired many times R-P Remington brass has started splitting in the body. Most splits are at mouth from many crimps.

More of a test then anything else. Heat for 30 seconds in flame may have only stress relieved the brass?

The wet sponge keeps the case head from over heating. Very dirty. Lots of black carbon black, but cleans up ok.

Test firing next week, weather permitting. 250 gr lswc & 10. 2 grs Unique. WLP.

To get away from the dirty candle soot, try using an alcohol burner. Use denatured alcohol from the hardware store.
https://www.amazon.com/Alcohol-Burner-Science-Equipment-Heating/dp/B07L9RHV3K/ref=asc_df_B07L9RHV3K?tag=bngsmtphsnus-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=80264466527755&hvnetw=s&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=&hvtargid=pla-4583863993384489&psc=1
If you want fancy, this popped up in my search. Not sure how it works exactly, but might be the cat's meow for annealing;
https://www.amazon.com/GSC-International-42002-Alcohol-Capacity/dp/B00UD2TO48/ref=asc_df_B00UD2TO48?tag=bngsmtphsnus-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=80264466527754&hvnetw=s&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=&hvtargid=pla-4583863993383735&psc=1

[Mal Paso]

I seldom load less than 20g of 2400 in 44Mag and the new brass is definitely softer after firing. By the second firing it's like butter to size. I don't know that annealing is necessary if you have a hot enough load. I've got 3,000 44Mag cases in rotation so it will take me a while to find out. My early brass took about 30 firings to start to split so I'll know in about 90,000 rounds, if I last that long.

[uscra112]

A self-annealing load? What a concept!

[michael.birdsley]

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Loaded up some Missouri bullet company 165 grain rnfp ( white tail bullets) I’m using 6.5-8.0 grains of red dot. These will be put through my savage 325c. I’ll probably wait untill after deer hunting shoot them. I bought 250 bullets from Missouri bullet company. If the preform well I’ll buy the mold.


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[Texas by God]

I've loaded up some 6.8mm and 30-30 cast bullets to try out Accurate 2015 powder out, and today I finished loading 40 New Old Stock Winchester 30-40 brass(Thanks, DG) with Old 180gr Vernon Speer RN bullets and Old H4831 powder ($6/lb.) and New Winchester primers.

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[Mandoair]

Pushed 500 primers into 9mm figure on building some test rounds with hs 6 and aa 2 to start a production run of 1000 147gr HMS P FP that are waiting around here.

[15meter]

Loaded 8 test rounds. 4 each with 5744 and Trail Boss for a Rigby 350 #2.

Trying 400/360 Purdey brass, it's got a thinner rim. Hopefully the rifle will close completely and fully lockup.

The 9.3x74R brass I initially used has a thicker rim causing problems.

[44Blam]

Loaded up 72 300 BO and have 77 more cases I can load. Then comes the mass reformation of 223/556 brass into 300 bo...

[Mandoair]

Loaded 35 9mm test rounds with AA 2 and win 244 under RMR 147 gr P FN. .355. haven’t tried the 244 yet but it was available last summer.

[Jal5]

Cleaned and decapped some brass for 45-70. Need to reload some 405 gr NOE right after deer season


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[agcannon]

Loaded some 44 magnum. 18 grains 2400, 429421, powder coated. CCI mag primers. Usually go with 9 grains unique, running low.

have about 1000 cci lp mag primers a friend gave me years ago, don't know how old they are. White boxes, primers on their side in the box. Reloading 25 + years, never seen them packaged like that before. They work, and just using what I got.

[Texas by God]

I've circled back to inletting a semi finished classic walnut stock for the Polish 98 Mauser barreled action that a friend gave me. I also epoxied a Weaver base to the rear sight for a Burris FF3 sight. I can't deal with barleycorns.

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[405grain]

307736 I've been waiting for years for the Saeco #081 mold to come back in stock. I finally got one and today was the first time I've had to use it. A super nice mold! the bullets drop out at .3235" and are right at 190 grains with my alloy. The air cooled alloy pencil tests at 13 BHN. I'll crimp on the gas checks and powder coat the driving bands tomorrow. I've got an order for some 8x57 brass coming from Grafs. I'm planning on working up some loads with Shooters World Buffalo (same as 5744, but without the unburned kernels). I'll post up a range report once everything comes together.

[trails4u]

Started pulling down a bunch of 348 Winchester handloads I acquired in an auction....and glad I made that decision! I believe the powder to be IMR-3031, and measured the first 10 I pulled. Charges anywhere from 48 to 61 grains!! :shock: 61gn being 145% of max! Super stoked to get the components, all appears to be new WW Super brass and 200gn Hornady FPs...but holy cow, glad I'm not shooting next to THAT guy!!

[Rapier]

Got in the brass I traded for, one hundred and forty pieces of once fired 243 brass/brass cases for one hundred and forty 45 Long Colt cases. I got rid of my five colts, but have an older 243 700 ultra varmint 26" that I am glass bedding, refinishing, and putting Jard single set in, plus five 260s to feed.

[Mandoair]

Still scratching my head about col for 9mm. Guess trial and error will be the science.
Cept for today. snowed all the way in.
308021

[Texas by God]

Had fun with ten primed 6mm Remington FC brass, some Red Dot, some Maltomeal, and some candle wax, and my 7mm Oviedo.
Ended up with nine 7x57mm cases( one neck split) and a cleaned barrel[emoji16]

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[44Blam]

Started transforming 556 brass into 300 BO... Cut the necks off about 300 cases, formed/resized and prepped for neck turning. Since they are covered in shavings and lube, they just got put into the FART for cleaning.
Tomorrow, I'll turn the necks and trim/debur and they'll be ready to load.

[taco650]

Started transforming 556 brass into 300 BO... Cut the necks off about 300 cases, formed/resized and prepped for neck turning. Since they are covered in shavings and lube, they just got put into the FART for cleaning.
Tomorrow, I'll turn the necks and trim/debur and they'll be ready to load.

Will you have to anneal them before loading?

[Rockindaddy]

Loaded a couple hundred 11mm Vickers rounds made from 348 Winchester brass. Got em belted up to run in my Colt 1918 Aircraft Gun. Cast a pile of bullets in a old discontinued Lyman 4-cavity .446110 mold that throws a 340 gr bullet that feeds in the old Colt Balloon buster! Originally the 11mm Vickers was styled after the 11mm French Grau round. Only 11mm Vickers bullet was hollow and was filled with white phosphorous. The WWI British pilots would shoot the German Zeppelins and light up the hydrogen envelope. That bullet stopped the German Zeppelin raids over England during WWI. I don't quite know how to make white phosphorous 11mm cast bullets yet. But the gun is fun to shoot @ 300 rounds per minute with my home cast boolits!!!

[Rockindaddy]

If your Henry frame is brass, use the 200 gr Lee 44 mold and don't load heavy! I sprung the frame of an early Navy arms Henry 44-40 shooting heavy loads. Had to put it in a hydraulic press with oak blocks to get it back into dimension. Have one of the new Navy arms Umberti 1860 Henrys. They are quite strong and like moderate 44-40 WCF loads. Reloader No 7 works great!

[B1GB1RD]

Sized and lubed up some of my match 358 conical bullets, did about 500 or so, that will get me through a few more weeks. pretty quite day, but some days are like that.

[uscra112]

Want a video of that Colt!

[trails4u]

Not so much in the reloading room....but I've started trimming 7.62 Nagant revolver brass for conversion to 310 cadet while waiting for my kindling to heat up when building fires in the furnace each evening. I can get 6-8 done in the time it takes me to get the fire good and hot....so after a month or so of doing this, I should have 200 or so cases trimmed/formed for the Cadet.

It's like paying myself to build a fire, right!! :bigsmyl2:

[Harter66]

Emptied Dad's 12# can of Unique. Only took 54 years . There's only enough left in the UniFlow and the little 1# square can for about 2,000 45 ACP/AR .

The real bummer is now I have to figure out how to burn up that 10# of Red Dot that's in the same 1968-69 keg that Grampa left me that just a year newer ......

[jim 44-40]

Cast .490 rb and punched out 200 lubed wads.Also loaded some Black powder 20 gauge with #4 buck.

[44Blam]

Will you have to anneal them before loading?

No - I don't. I shoot a 225 grain boolit subsonic at about 1050 fps.
Originally, I did 50 cases this way and did my load development. Then I did another few, etc and at this point I've got a few (maybe 300) cases. I am sure I've shot those original 50 at least 5 or 6 times and they don't grow and don't really get stressed... In fact, I cannot tell them from the newer ones...
So at this point, I'm just adding to the pool so I can have a bigger stockpile.

[Mandoair]

Every one here is so productive I’m impressed. But not it seems to the point of productivity.
I have been studying measuring and experimenting with col for 9x19 RMR P FN 147. Saami says 1.000 to 1.165”. After testing 40 rds at col 1.130 I realized my bullets were touching the rifling. Anyway I did manage to load 50 test rounds from 1.050, 1.065, 1.100, 1.115, 1.120 in AA#2, and Win. 244. Waiting for 20+’ F and more day light to test them. After all the days do start getting longer next week. Merry Christmas. PS there was one day I did managed to load over 300 rounds.

[B1GB1RD]

got to break in the new molds, little chilly here in Fl today, so decided to get the molds out and break um in, 44 in 240 swc, and a 45LC 230 conical (they look great), cant wait to size lube and shoot the new ceations....lol. Did about 200 44 and about 500 45lc, have a load for the 44 but the 45lc is lighter than I shoot, so itll be fun!

[36g]

Slowly working on a run of 180 gr PC 10mm. Have the brass sized and deprimed, working on belling case mouth prior to priming. Also have polished a batch of .308 brass in prep of running some more FMJ's. Won't take long on those though - the 1050 cranks them out quickly.

[Texas by God]

I mounted a new to me Weaver K2.5 scope on my 20" 5.56 AR15 and it sighted in easily. A 2" group @100 yds with 55gr fmj ammo is nice.
I loaded 20 7x57mm to test a new die set, and started to load some 45 auto.

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[scooterwrench]

Loaded a ladder load of 45acp with 300gn TC's and 4.6-5.2gns IMR red. Gonna try it out tomorrow in the small ring mauser plunker I built for my brother.

[Rapier]

Loaded a bit of 30x39 cases with H-322 and 150 grain flat base bullets. for the 30x39 rifle I just finished up. Advantage of the 7.62x39 chamber in a .308 barrel with 1-10 twist can use of 30 caliber bullets with good accuracy.
Put together more ASP 115 bullets with AA #7 for the 9x19 gun..

I now have some testing to do....Might get the grandkids to "help" with that on Christmas day......

[Texas by God]

I’ve started sizing and priming 100 .218 Bee cases. I’m using Small Pistol Magnum primers(because I have a bunch), and this first batch will be with H110 and 35gr Vmax bullets.


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[B1GB1RD]

Shot our ILSA match and realized im starting to run a little low on the 357s, so I cast about 500 and lubed about 100, starting weighing and realized they were heavy, checked the mold only to find out the nut had backed off, shoulda seen that while sizing, duh, so I re melted and re ran the lot, see tomorrow how they did....lol

[Mandoair]

Got a berry brass separator for Christmas. Started on a 5 gal bucket of range brass. 22 223 9 40 10 308 300 win…. Sure beats pecking through by hand but busy work.

[44Blam]

Turned the necks of about 300 more 300 BO cases - that is some bo-ring work that gets you all crampy...

[Rapier]

I finished the 30-39 AR. A 7.62x39 chambered .308 barrel with 1-10 twist in 16". Loaded up some Win 7.62x39 new brass with .308 dies and a ,308 expander ball using 150 grain bullets and H-322. Makes a neat light, powerful, hog rifle.

[Willie T]

I cast 20# of 9mm 125 round noses out of Lyman No2 with a Lee six cavity. I have not picked out the rejects but there are very few. If I keep the No2 around 700 and don’t get the mold too hot, it just rains a lot of quality boolits in a hurry. 308717
Then I sized, gas checked, and lubed some 158 SWCs for my .357’s on the LAM.
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Then I put an auto prime on my single stage press and belled and primed 500 cases at the same time with 100% positive function. The auto prime may be the best $53 Ive spent updating my gear. No difference in my ammunition quality but eliminating one step from the process was pretty dog gone nice.

Willie

[414gates]

Made up a case retention bracket for my Pro 2000 press.

It snapped and had bits break off one too many times. For some reason, the epoxy adhesive I have does not adhere well to that plastic.

https://ysterhout.net/images/pro2000/old-retention-bracket.jpg

Cut with a hand jig-saw from a PVC pipe stop-end. The thickness of the stop-end is almost exactly the same as the original part.

https://ysterhout.net/images/pro2000/new-retention-bracket.jpg

[robg]

just loaded up 45x 45-70s 24gn 2400 340gn boolits .

[Jal5]

Had to breakdown some 9mm reloads mixed bunch JHP and lead. Trying to get the hang of Hornady bullet puller.


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[B1GB1RD]

Cleaned all the guns from the match, sized and lubed about 500 (all I had) of my 452 colt boolits, and ran off about 700 45 230rn on the Dillon, and cleaned a bucket of 45 acp brass, good day.

[15meter]

Made up a case retention bracket for my Pro 2000 press.

It snapped and had bits break off one too many times. For some reason, the epoxy adhesive I have does not adhere well to that plastic.

https://ysterhout.net/images/pro2000/old-retention-bracket.jpg

Next time try sanding the part to be bonded, sometimes a little "tooth" for the epoxy to key into can help. I buy epoxy by the gallon, a too smooth surface can be an issue. 80-120 grit.

[15meter]

308776

200+ 30-06. 400 more should put me in decent shape for plinking next summer.

[gloob]

I rigged up some hangers for a breechlock bushing, primer arms, and a wrench for adjusting lever length, next to my press.
[Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/9SwjdA6.jpg)

Made a low footprint spent primer collector. It is the right size and shape to lay right next to the press linkages when the ram is raised up, so it takes up virtually no extra space under the bench.
[Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/zaAoDUS.jpg)

I had to grind out a couple notches in the side of the preform tube to clear the nuts on the press linkages. I even ground down one of the nuts on the press.
[Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/XQsb3A3.jpg)
[Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/oJ0RFwW.jpg)

And I made a spent primer deflector out of steel. For years I used a piece of plastic that I just jammed in place. That worked fine, but it looked like trash whenever it was out of the press and I was cleaning the bench. I finally must have misplaced it or threw it away.
[Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/0a6Q143.jpg)

[Bull]

[QUOTE=Okie73;3034502]I did absolutely nothing because we haven't found a house yet and have been stuck in an apartment for two months! I'm going through reloading withdrawls.[/QUOTE :grin::grin:]

I can sell you a house in OKC, you could move in quick! :grin:

[Wal']

Airbrushing an old/still new WH40k Ork Gargant, one of only 600 made in the USA & sold Worldwide by Armorcast, started production in June of 1995 & licenced then by the Warhammer 40K Company, England.
My gun room is also my hobby room. :bigsmyl2:

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[Mandoair]

Airbrushing an old/still new WH40k Ork Gargant, one of only 600 made in the USA & sold Worldwide by Armorcast, started production in June of 1995 & licenced then by the Warhammer 40K Company, England.

.308934

I’ve never seen anything like that before. I was only 2 years old when they started production though but it does lend a new meaning to the term Pee Shooter.

Great job

[Wal']

I’ve never seen anything like that before. I was only 2 years old when they started production though but it does lend a new meaning to the term Pee Shooter.

Great job

As said, I am airbrushing/painting my son's unit after having it sit on my kitchen table for many years, & yes it gets a lot of comments, my eldest son got me started painting his Warhammer 40K models many years back, a popular table game all over the world.
The photo is to show what I have & I am basically following the same paint scheme except Yellow is my main colour.........a lot of fun,
Bought originally from an eBay seller in the USA & imported to Oz.....

[sukivel]

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Building a new reloading room…


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[Mandoair]

Ran my new RCBS pro melt 2 for the first time. Love the bottom pour. Got around 600 perfect Boolits in about an hour. Weighed them last night and the weight (132-134) is way more consistent than my ladle poured Boolits with way more keepers. MP 356 2r bb no lube grove 8 cavity mold. Haven’t tested these yet but have 25 loaded up for when it warms up above 20’ again.

[jonp]

Airbrushing an old/still new WH40k Ork Gargant, one of only 600 made in the USA & sold Worldwide by Armorcast, started production in June of 1995 & licenced then by the Warhammer 40K Company, England.
My gun room is also my hobby room. :bigsmyl2:

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Nice! I have a couple of Warhammer and WH40K Omnibus books. Great reads and I'm a fan of the Gotrek and Felix books. Fantasy but not over the edge silly stuff for the most part.

[jonp]

Dozen 12g using my new Lee and Promo. Fiocchi hulls and Lightening wads for 1oz loads. Easier than I thought and they all go bang! Had to adjust the bushings, though using a scale to get the right powder throw but when loading something I always check with my GemTek250 on the first few anyways.

[Nightwing_Actual]

My reloading room is also my firearms build lab. Today I did some maintenance and repairs on one of my 1919s, welded up a CETME C receiver, populated an Ak barrel, and loaded 600 9mm (124gn jacketed over win231)

[Nightwing_Actual]

Airbrushing an old/still new WH40k Ork Gargant, one of only 600 made in the USA & sold Worldwide by Armorcast, started production in June of 1995 & licenced then by the Warhammer 40K Company, England.
My gun room is also my hobby room. :bigsmyl2:

.308934
I haven’t seen that one before, very cool! I never got into warhammer, just DnD and model tanks/ cars. But I have done a few hundred space marines on commission for people from the local comic shop.

[TXTad]

Emptied Dad's 12# can of Unique. Only took 54 years . There's only enough left in the UniFlow and the little 1# square can for about 2,000 45 ACP/AR .

The real bummer is now I have to figure out how to burn up that 10# of Red Dot that's in the same 1968-69 keg that Grampa left me that just a year newer ......

https://forum.castbulletassoc.org/thread/1387-the-load-is-13-grains-of-red-dot/

[TXTad]

I cast my first Bullets in at least 10 or 15 years. Not counting a few garbage bullets I poured with a ladle last night. I got a Lee 429-214 a few weeks ago and poured a small batch from an ancient Lee bottom pour pot that I bought used in the early 2000s. It took me a while to get into a groove, but I finally got some decent bullets. I definitely am out of practice and have a few issues to fix, but I can shoot some of these. I plan to eventually start powder coating, but I'll probably just tumble lube these.

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[The Dar]

I cast my first Bullets in at least 10 or 15 years. Not counting a few garbage bullets I poured with a ladle last night. I got a Lee 429-214 a few weeks ago and poured a small batch from an ancient Lee bottom pour pot that I bought used in the early 2000s. It took me a while to get into a groove, but I finally got some decent bullets. I definitely am out of practice and have a few issues to fix, but I can shoot some of these. I plan to eventually start powder coating, but I'll probably just tumble lube these.

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Nice work. That is a very accurate bullet, I've shot thousands of them.

[compass will]

Lee 358-140 SWC. About 500 for 38 special. But some mic .362" should I size them (.359") before powder coating?https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230114/ceb4d3630c904876a7868bcd22096a76.jpg

[B1GB1RD]

I cast my first Bullets in at least 10 or 15 years. Not counting a few garbage bullets I poured with a ladle last night. I got a Lee 429-214 a few weeks ago and poured a small batch from an ancient Lee bottom pour pot that I bought used in the early 2000s. It took me a while to get into a groove, but I finally got some decent bullets. I definitely am out of practice and have a few issues to fix, but I can shoot some of these. I plan to eventually start powder coating, but I'll probably just tumble lube these.

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I just got this mold and they are all coming out 219-220, they shoot out of my contender like a dream, its my new go to 44 mag silhouette boolit

[Mandoair]

Lee 358-140 SWC. About 500 for 38 special. But some mic .362" should I size them (.359") before powder coating?https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230114/ceb4d3630c904876a7868bcd22096a76.jpg

For what it's worth in my minascule experience, I have done the sizing before and added about a thousandth, and I have sized after powder to get the exact die size. I started with the powder coat this last year sometime with 10mm and with the molds I had for lubed boolits like the one's you have here. After some expiramenting I decided I don't like to Powder Coat the lube grove boolits. bad for my accuracy. Even my 230 grain boolit only has 2 lube groves and I "think" that more surface area touching the barrel is more bettera. I now have an MP mold, 356/359 130 rn bb no lube grooves, that throws 8 at a time... I have only fired 7 batches of 5 each, 35 of those so far but did see some batches with very good accuracy in my 9mm XDM 4.5". I do think in a 38 sp the powder coat may work better then in the 10mm.... just say'in

[B1GB1RD]

And today was, cast, size, and lube about 800 155gr .360 (sized 358) boolits out of my MP mold, love this mold, they come out 157-158 with my lead, my small caliber ILSA load

[jim 44-40]

Broke in a new Lee #4 buckshot mold.And pan lubed Lee REAL 45 cal

[openbook]

Cleaned up my loading bench, a multiple-day project, and loaded my first two boxes of shotshells. Remington STS hulls, 7.5 shot, and Red Dot. These shot really well and gave much more decisive breaks than the NobelSports I've been shooting.


Dozen 12g using my new Lee and Promo. Fiocchi hulls and Lightening wads for 1oz loads. Easier than I thought and they all go bang! Had to adjust the bushings, though using a scale to get the right powder throw but when loading something I always check with my GemTek250 on the first few anyways.

I found using the Lee Load-all to be really fun and relaxing. I found it was consistently dropping one grain light from my target weight, but the shells shot great, and it's an acceptable load, so I haven't adjusted it. Pretty cool to start loading shotshells for $65!

[whisler]

First use of a Lee six cavity mold (452-230 TC). Had only used 2 cavity molds until now. I quickly decided that my 10 lb. pot was too small and ordered a 20 lb. pot.
I had a lot of issues at first, getting used to the 6 cavity, but finally got some technique that worked ok. I still need more practice.

[TNsailorman]

setting the adjustment on dies to make 8x57mm cases from 30-06 military. now to find some old military 30-06 brass and will be set up. james

[Mandoair]

Broke in a new Lee #4 buckshot mold.And pan lubed Lee REAL 45 cal


First use of a Lee six cavity mold (452-230 TC). Had only used 2 cavity molds until now. I quickly decided that my 10 lb. pot was too small and ordered a 20 lb. pot.
I had a lot of issues at first, getting used to the 6 cavity, but finally got some technique that worked ok. I still need more practice.
I have just started with an 8 hole mp 356/358 130 rn bb. First go was with a dipper. I promptly ordered a RCBS pro 2 bottom pour. Have used it once and really enjoyed it. The Boolits come out much better than dipping. I think I’ll add 50’ next time up to 750 or 760’. Can’t wait to heat it up again. Also added a Hornaday ap progressive really going to like this thing when I can get back to it. And get over the sticker shock. Those Boolits have no lube groves and shoot really good pc 9mm.

[414gates]

Finished up a BMG loading tray.

https:///ysterhout.net/images/tray/50bmg-tray.jpg

[challenger_i]

Made test rounds for 45 Cowboy Special for my 1858 cartridge conversion. Tested same.
Next on the agenda is loading Magtech 410 cartridges.

[Mandoair]

Sized a few hundred PC MP 356/358 130 rn bb boolits for 9mm. Need more test rounds with CFE Pistol. Been happy with my first test results. 309375

[TNsailorman]

converted some military 30-06 to 8x57 just to have something to do in this cold weather. had a good time of it too, james

[renoce]

I cast for just over three hours today. Given it was 57-58 degrees here in January it was a great day to cast. Thursday is supposed to be as nice. So I might just try to cast Thursday to.

[Mandoair]

Cleaned, rearranged,and organized reload room. Measured and separated by length many hundred 9mm rounds. Really thought I would skip this step this time but seems to be the only way to get consistent OAL.

[schutzen-jager]

nothing - bench in unheated garage -

[Texas by God]

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I tried 4227 for the first time ever. 9 grs of it with the 55gr Lee lit by R-P 6-1/2 sr primers.
These little bullet baking trays double as .218 Bee specific loading blocks[emoji3]


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[tmag97]

Ran out of titegroup for 38 special and started working on load for winchester 231 Using 158 swc boolits Powder is hard to come by in my area

[Mandoair]

Cleaning a half bucket of range brass.

[atr]

trimmed lots of brass cases...my least favorite thing to do

[Texas by God]

Taking a break from stock work to load some 30-06 hunting loads featuring the 150 gr Speer JSP over Hodgdon Superfomance and the REM 9-1/2M primer.
In case the big buck is 1/4 mile away….


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[Mandoair]

Still cleaning and building shelves. Cleaned and Setup new Hornaday 9mm die set with powder cop in the new Hornaday A P press. Have hundreds of cases ready and looking forward to my first production session. But latter today some more test rounds to make to be sure.

[Iron369]

I’m planning to do some organizing today. It’s been a while since I’ve loaded anything. I started drinking too much and was always afraid of causing a catastrophic accident so I wouldn’t load while loaded. Lol. Now that I’ve quit drinking, it’s time I get stuff arranged for some fun.

[taco650]

Taking a break from stock work to load some 30-06 hunting loads featuring the 150 gr Speer JSP over Hodgdon Superfomance and the REM 9-1/2M primer.
In case the big buck is 1/4 mile away….


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I’d be interested in hearing what you come up with. The 30-06 with 150 HDY Interlock has been my go to whitetail slayer for the past few years. I’ve killed five deer from the same box of reloads :lol:

[B1GB1RD]

So I bit the bullet, haha, I bought myself a mark7 with auto drive and primer express, its a beast, but can be temperamental to say the least, we shall see how it goes, took a while to get it right, but when it runs it runs, about 1800 in a hour of 9 -115gr.

[Loudy13]

finished prepping all the 223 and 308 brass I had on hand. Loaded 30 test rounds for 308 half with SW match which I can now buy in town off the shelf.

[Texas by God]

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I re- used the thin recoil pads from my lightweight Yildiz shotguns by fitting them to my H&R Topper rifles. They should tame that fierce .218 Bee and 44-40 recoil…..[emoji3]


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[sigep1764]

Tumbled and sized a bunch of 9mm brass. Cast a couple hundred Elco and Lee 312 155 boolits. Then powder coated the Lee Boolits. C
Gonna load the for a buddy’s AK. Also gonna see if powder coated Elco Boolits will chamber in my 9mms

[Outer Rondacker]

Put together another newbie reloading package for a guy. I feel like I lose out every time I do this. Oh well gets another into a hobby I know has brought enjoyment to me. They always want everything for nothing. Cheap reloaders these days. Always about mass production for as little as possible.

[tmag97]

Loaded some 30/06 with cast

[tmag97]

loaded about 100 124 gr HP in 9mm with w231

[ukrifleman]

Loaded some test cast loads using 200g Lyman 314299 bullets for my Type 99 Arisaka.

[racepres]

Removed the Bevel base on a Lee 452, 200, swc mold. Did the whole deed with Hand tools, and only took a few Days...On and Off. Will I do it again??? Prolly No. But, I just couldn't take it anymore... my 45 Win Mag barrel prefers Boolits sized to .452, for some reason.. so long as I'm runnin em thru the old Ideal 45!!! May as well get em where I can lube em at same time!!!
I am Happy with the Result... But, Have Not tested them Yet...

[Mandoair]

Cast 13lbs of mp 356/358-130 rn no lubers. Sized to.356. Loaded 25 test rd with same that was yesterday hopefully shoot them today 32’ and partly sunny
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[Texas by God]

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I assumed that “Load ready” meant that I could just flare, charge, and seat bullets when I found this bubble pack of primed brass…..
Wrong. I could seat a jacketed (or plated) bullet with my bare hands.
So, I dumped the powder out, put the sizing die halfway in the press, and neck sized all of them without de-priming. It worked.
Funny but I didn’t notice any flare on the case mouths when I opened the package.


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[Jal5]

Cleaned my 9 mm Shield. Long overdue. The only part of shooting I don’t like so I procrastinate


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[The Dar]

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I assumed that “Load ready” meant that I could just flare, charge, and seat bullets when I found this bubble pack of primed brass…..
Wrong. I could seat a jacketed (or plated) bullet with my bare hands.
So, I dumped the powder out, put the sizing die halfway in the press, and neck sized all of them without de-priming. It worked.
Funny but I didn’t notice any flare on the case mouths when I opened the package.


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My guess is fired brass, deprimed with a universal deprimer. Wet tumbled and primed. I've found a bullet will drop right in a fired case. I see the fine print (upper right on the card) says "100% reconditioned, well apparently not. I deprime my fired brass with a universal deprimer, tumble the brass then size with the depriming rod removed from my sizing die. I hope they work for you with partial sizing, let us know.

[Ajax111]

I cut down some shoulder bolts. To fit into a Lee trimmer to adjust the length on de-rimmed 22lr brass.
This would be for making .224 jackets for swaged bullets.

[1I-Jack]

Deprimed and cleaned 200 45 ACP. Just gettin' a little something done before the weather turns cold again this weekend. Waiting for 6mm ARC brass to show up from Optics Planet...

[uscra112]

Finally chambered the new liner in the .25 Stevens Favorite project rifle and filed the spring-loaded .22 extractor/ejector to fit. Then got so exasperated trying to get it all back together that I ordered a regular extractor from Jack First. I did that with the 1915 Favorite .22 I rebarreled ten years ago, too.
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!!Jack First shipped in less than 24 hours !

[Mandoair]

Bottom poured 24lbs of 130gr. Boolits in just a couple of hours. Love it. Could of done the same thing with my dipper in a day. With more rejects. PS it is an eight cavity mold. Gets with the program. That’s 1280 131gr Boolits minus one or two culles.

[chuck40219]

Cast 500 .490 R/B tonight. Will cast another 500 tomorrow before setting up to cast 1000 .358 125 gr. boolits. Then in the next few days I will cast 1000 .358 158 gr boolits. Then the only thing left is the 45-70 food. Casting over for the year, all I have to do is shootem up.

Chuck40219

[Baltimoreed]

Did 100 rds of .455 Webley for my cas shoot Saturday. Have enough 44-40 and 12 ga. Might try to do 100 more as everything’s set up.

[tmag97]

Helped my grandson sight in his 308 rifle today

[openbook]

Removed the Bevel base on a Lee 452, 200, swc mold. Did the whole deed with Hand tools

That's pretty neat. I'd be interested to know how you went about it.

Haven't had a lot of time but I did take a few to load up a box of 12ga. 7.5 shot over Red Dot. I've found some videos where guys drop their own shot - pretty cool, but I've got a lifetime's worth of projects that probably come before that one, so the shot is store-bought.

[Texas by God]

I’m loading the last of my pc Lee 200fn in the 44-40 over 10 grs Unique. Maybe I’ll cast some more this week.
We have a management deer hunt coming up- I’ll use the 44, my wife will use her .250 Savage.


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[sigep1764]

Too cold to cast today, but got a couple hundred 223 cases prepped, about a hundred 7.62x39 cases prepped, and sized the same amount of Lee312-155 Boolits with gas checks

[Mandoair]

Weighed and segregated my last pour of MP 356/358-130-NLG BB. Learned if you recast the heavier boolits hoping to get lighter Boolits they come out about the same as the first time around. Powder Coated a couple of small batches. Started a run of RMR P 147 gr rn fp on my new progressive press Still getting the hang of quality control on it.
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[Mandoair]

Finished up a run of 9mm I had started yesterday and p c ed a few hundred more Boolits 9mm.
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[uscra112]

Fitted a non-ejecting extractor to the relined .25 Stevens RF 1915 Favorite. Had to adapt a "wide" '94 style .22 extractor due to the 'smith who did the liner cutting the extractor slot too wide. Also fitted a new Jack First firing pin, which should NOT have needed filing but it did. All back together, popped a couple of reloadable-rimfire caps. :grin: All this done in the dining room because it's SIX bloody degrees outside and the shop room heater can't keep up. (OK you northeners, sneer at me.....but I've lived that icy life for most of my 78 years and want no more of it.)

[OS OK]

Fitted a non-ejecting extractor to the relined .25 Stevens RF 1915 Favorite. Had to adapt a "wide" '94 style .22 extractor due to the 'smith who did the liner cutting the extractor slot too wide. Also fitted a new Jack First firing pin, which should NOT have needed filing but it did. All back together, popped a couple of reloadable-rimfire caps. :grin: All this done in the dining room because it's SIX bloody degrees outside and the shop room heater can't keep up. (OK you northeners, sneer at me.....but I've lived that icy life for most of my 78 years and want no more of it.)

"If you can deal with weather like that at your age...you must be a 'TOUGH'OLE BIRD'! :bigsmyl2:"

[Jal5]

Lot of case prepping the past 2 days. Decapping, tumbling and inspecting about 500 9mm and a bunch of 380s


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[Outer Rondacker]

Rebuilt three Dillon Square Deal's. Then managed to find the floor in one corner. Nothing like looking back at things you just ordered not to long ago to find ones you had already ordered well not to long before that. I really need to start thinning out this room.

[Ajax111]

Spent the day making a lead tip cleanup die for my swaged .224/68 grain bullets.

[15meter]

Loaded a box of 350 Rigby Magnums, deprimed, sized, expanded necks and primed 50 30-30's. Loaded the polisher up with 22-250 and 257 Weatherby brass so it's all spiffy in the morning.